Lyrics
Consumed with premonition of trouble on horizon
By my remarks I was certain I was destined persecution
But then I took a chase after the Bournemouth runner!
Bournemouth runner, c c could dare
Bournemouth runner, the first night
Bournemouth runner!
He was a Bournemouth runner!
Bournemouth runner, didn't get far
Bournemouth runner, first night
Bournemouth runner, but the second night he got away with our guiding light
Was chilled to the bone at eight a.m. on a Bournemouth morn
There was a drum deck outside room fifty-one
Two nights before, Bristol ball, a runner took backdrop, exit hall
Bournemouth runner, raced a couple of hundred yards
Bournemouth runner, barman clipped his ears
Bournemouth runner, spitted and shifted
Bournemouth runner, backdrop dissipated
Bournemouth runner, he was the Bournemouth runner!
How could we know it was the Bournemouth runner?
Bournemouth runner, raced a couple of hundred yards
Bournemouth runner, barman clipped his ears
Bournemouth runner, spitted and shifted
Bournemouth runner, backdrop dissipated
Bournemouth runner, he was the Bournemouth runner!
Took away our guiding light
Took away our guiding light
Took away our guiding light
He took away our guiding light
He took away our guiding light
He took away our guiding light
Our backdrop was friendly, heavy
Often it would rumble into hotel
And partake with us in diluted drink and dog meat
Of RAC recommended hostelry
Bournemouth runner, shifted and twisted
Bournemouth runner, on beach sand sifted
Bournemouth runner, in the best home
Bournemouth runner, locks picked
He was a Bournemouth runner
Bournemouth runner, should've known better than to under-rate
Bournemouth sucker
He took away our guiding light
He took away our guiding light
He took away our guiding light
Bournemouth runner, calendar
Bournemouth runner, I've forgotten the date
Bournemouth runner, no plot
Bournemouth runner, you're welcome
Bournemouth runner, it was coated in poison
Bournemouth runner, have to buy a new one
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Bournemouth Runner” [Archived]
- Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
- Mackay, Tommy (2018). 40 Odd Years of The Fall. Place of publication unknown: Greg Moodie.
- Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
- Smith, Mark E. (1985). The Fall Lyrik & Texte Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Berlin: The Lough Press. [AKA The Orange Book. Available online in The Internet Archive]
- Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]
- Smith Start, Brix (2016). The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise. London: Faber & Faber. [Text available online in archive.org]
- The Track Record: “Bournemouth Runner”
- Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide: a memoir. Trowbridge: Strata Books. (2nd edition published by Route Publishing, 2017).
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